Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I woke up this morning to find my 3day old iP4s DEAD. I left if at 100% charge before going to bed at 11pm last night so it is a real concern. I mean, it happened a lot to my 3yr old 3G before, but this? Push and Send to Apple settings are off. Sure, I have wifi on all the time when i'm at home, but for it to go from 100% to zero in 6 hours without doing anything?? I think I am going to take it back. It's unsettling that a lot of other 4S users are experiencing the same. Uh oh.

@zcrable:  According to Apple you should get 200 hrs of standby time on the 4S, not 6:

Maximum Battery Life1

iPhone 4S offers up to 8 hours of talk time on 3G, 14 hours of talk time on 2G (GSM model only), 6 hours of Internet use on 3G, 9 hours of Internet use on Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video playback, or 40 hours of audio playback on a full charge at original capacity. In addition, iPhone 4S features up to 200 hours of standby time.

Same here. I updated my 3GS to iOS 5 and it had horrible battery life. I got an iPhone 4S on the 14th and it loses it's charge even when not in use (i.e. Asleep). I've tried toggling setting but nothing helps. I've even done a factory restore and it didn't do anything either.

I think it's a software problem. It seems that Apple always fixes these things with a software update as they did with iOS 4.3 and iOS 3. We just have to wait on the update. Apple? Are you working on it???

Received two 4S's (my wife and I) on Friday and set them up with the"whole shabang" of new iOS options and saw the same battery drainproblem as everyone over the weekend and yesterday (with only moderate usage).

Did the common steps that everyone has discussed yesterday (diagnostics-OFF, time zones-OFF, disabled most locations services that I didn't need, did a network settings restore, etc) and finally decided last night to do a battery conditioning - full discharge/re-charge. Started today with the basic settings that I want- bluetooth -ON and the new find my friends-ON.  I also have iCloud sync running but no push for e-mails (that's always been a big drain).

By noon today, after a few of phone calls, some music on my way to work and a couple texts, I'm still at 100% and I've been off the charger forabout 4.5 hours.  I realize alot of just standby time but even with standby over the last few days it was draining fast. I'm hopeful that the battery has "settled down".  We'll see.

Hi All,

I found a solution that might apply to you as well. My phone was heating and the battery draining evening without using the phone. I tried all the suggestion above but no luck. One thing I noticed is that my phone will heat up and the battery drains if I put my phone in the belt case that has a magnet in it. I took the phone out without even turning it on and the phone cooled down and the battery went only 1% down after 45 min. I put it back in the case again and the phone was warm and the battery went down 20% after 30 min.

turn off GPS apps and go to clock settings to turn off time zone setting unless u travel to different time zone. when u go to settings tap location services go down to system services and turn off just setting time zone that always uses GPS and must of all Data and if u have 3G on while GPS is on bye battery and Data plan usage. leave the find my Iphone alone dont turn off.

I just want to join this conversation. I too bought an iPhone 4s on Friday and tried to do all sorts of things that you all have already mentioned (reset, turning stuff off, "calibrating" and so on) and nothing really helps. The battery just goes down rapidly. But, I noticed that happens only when I'm actually using the phone, I mean when the screen is on. It doesn't matter if I'm just typing a text or browsing the web, whenever screen is on - battery goes down. For instance, I lost 2% while I was typing this. My screan is on auto brightens, nothing fancy. That leads me to belive that either my battery is malfunctioning or A5 just ***** life out of this battery. But on the other hand not everybody who has got an iPhone 4S is complaining. Does that mean that we were unlucky and that we just need a replacement ? I would like to hear if someon got a replacement phone and whether that solved the problem ?

My battery life is bad, from 95% 7 hours ago to now 25% and I've with barely used it!!!!!!! Thats not good, imagine when I do want to surf the net or take a couple of pics.

I do like the phone but very disappointed with this. I'll ask the girlfriend for a portable generator for christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My 4s drain 60% stanby mode within 14 hours. I notice it drain power much faster than my old 3gs then I started investigate a bit. It's not acceptable because my phone will go dead in mid day.

I spent 1200$ for devices for my family that I have to tweak down to a glorified ipod in order to use??? Im beggining to think I made a huge mistake buying an iphone.

Scott from Enterprise. :

Your last message was removed on how much you spent on these devices for your family. Hang-in that buddy, we are all in it.  APPLE will sooner or later will/has to come up with a fix. They care about people & thats one of the reasons the company has so much loyality & fans & has been successful. Hang tight....

On my second 4s - sent it back to Covent Garden Store. More than happy to exchange; and they do have a back up supply for faults just incase if anyone was wondering as I do know there is a shortage of 4s in the UK.

I charged the 4s twice in one day from 0% and also it would not charge upto 100%; only too 98%.

Also i was getting no SIM or invlaid Sim  - 2 to 3 times. Now that is another issue!!

Everything seems fine now however battery life is not as to be expected.

Dexius-

I was having the same problem, so I went to the Apple Store and had them replace the phone.  Unfortunately, I am having the same problem with the replacement phone!

Alright guys,  the battery for now suchs bad.  Thts been said, I like to share a cool video that Cnet posted about the history of iPhone... I'm very inpatient when comes to things been fixed, but we came a long way since...

http://laughingsquid.com/an-animated-history-of-the-iphone/

YESSS my phone overheats CONSTATLY appart from only lasting about 7 hours. This is ridiculous and needs yo be fixed